Film Projects
After a quarter of a century as a television and film director, I am now on the road with zazu.berlin in
the field of film, mainly for image films and documentaries around the globe.
Due to the long-standing cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the film work in
recent years has concentrated mainly on the areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and West Africa. The logistics
and preparations with the corresponding filming and work permits are not always trivial. You have to
know how to get the very expensive film equipment through customs, and in case of doubt, a larger
military escort is the only way to secure the filming and the staff.
Together with my experienced team we have been so far to the following countries: Senegal, Niger, Ghana,
DRC Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa.
In Namibia, we now have a small storage with film equipment to make transport easier.
Advertising Films
I am currently shooting commercials and image films for medium-sized companies, clinics and doctors, with
a few exceptions, all in Germany.
TYPO3 web programming
Compared to WordPress, TYPO3 is a very complex, but also a very well-structured and flexible content
management system for web development. I am a member of the TYPO3 Association and, together with my
colleagues, ready for even the most complex tasks.
Consulting Digitalisation
Is Germany left behind? No, it's just that most of the time it doesn't recognise its potential and lacks
the overarching guiding structures for digitisation that can keep up with the big players in the long
term. The focus is always on dynamic personalised data sets and algorithms that turn the constantly
adapting data into intelligent services. My main concern is the democratic handling of people's data. It
seems that no one has yet seriously flogged this idea, not even in open source projects. This is a gap
in the market and a guiding principle for the platform development of large corporations and hopeful
start-ups. With the DAAD's DIGIFACE platform, we are pursuing precisely this approach. The basic idea
and the platform structure have been developed entirely by me as an external consultant, the design is
by
zazudesign. The project management is in the hands of Prof. Dr. Eisenberg from Kehl University of
Applied Sciences. Other consulting clients are Mercedes-Benz Global Training, Rheinmetall Automotive and
Synchronize Consulting.
